Giulia Maria Miscioscia (Julia Maria Mee-sho-sha) graduated in Italy in Opera Singing, and later she specialized in Ancient music, Renaissance and Baroque singing. She followed the School in Ornamentation, Ancient and Baroque Practices of the harpsichordists Emilia Fadini, Luca Moser and Roberto Gianotti, where she studied the Baroque Theory of Affects (Affektenlehre) proposed by the scholar Athanasius Kirchner (Musurgia Pathetica) and practised by the Italian Baroque composer Giacomo Carissimi in Rome duirng Baroque Age.

She trained in many Choirs with the international master and conductor Lorenzo Donati (Italy), and Nicole Corti (France), participating in projects of madrigals, medieval and renaissance polyphonic music, baroque Opera and baroque dance with the Italian director Deda Cristina Colonna.

She attended the Acting School “Il Faro Teatrale” Academy in Milan, founded by the director and actor Massimo Sabet, where she studied dictions and Italian phonetics.

She studied history of Theatre & Opera, Poetry, Metrics and librettos with the Italian music critic and journalist Carla Moreni. 

She studied Opera with Maestro Vito Maria Brunetti, bariton, student of Leo Ferri and Marcello del Monaco, experts of the vocal technique of Arturo Melocchi.

PSYCHOPHONIE

Giulia studied “Psychophonie” for 4 years with the musician and midwife Elisa Benassi, following a path which deepens, rationalizes and develops the teachings of the French singer and researcher Marie-Louise Aucher.

“The path of Psicophonie is a self-experiential path of vital harmony that uses, through the spoken and sung voice, the correspondences between Human being, Sounds, Rhythms, the Word, patiently creating a personal synthesis of knowledge and balance.” Marie-Louise Aucher

Founded by the Opera singer Marie-Louise Aucher in 1960, following a long research on sound and the vibratory correspondences of the human body, the path of Psicophonie establishes a profound link between receptivity and emission, between self-recognition and one’s own expression, which is affirmed to be freer.

It is an integrative discipline: thanks to the structure of the voice, it harmonizes the different levels of the Human Being, strengthening its coherence.

THE ART OF ITALIAN BEL CANTO

Giulia believes that music is an excellent ally to face the tidal waves and storms of life. As a singer, she personally experienced many challenges, like a huge fracture to her jaw at 35 years old and an ischemia, that’s why now she had to work a lot on herself. She has a deep art of listening the voices and knowledge of phono-respiratory technique and of art of singing without effort and tension, but with ease and grace, that was called “Sprezzatura” in ancient Italian Music School.

SPREZZATURA: The term originated in the Renaissance with Baldassarre Castiglione, in his book “Il Cortigiano” (1528), where he defined sprezzatura as “a certain ease that conceals art and demonstrates that everything that is done and said is done without effort.” Although it originated in a courtly and social context, the concept was later applied to art, and in particular to music, where it translates into an expressive elegance. The performer masters the technique so well that it can be “hidden” behind a spontaneous and natural performance. It is often linked to the art of vocal or instrumental ornamentation, typical of Baroque music, where the singer or musician improvises embellishments without ostentatious effort.

The art of singing and the approach to Bel Canto and Opera proposed by Giulia Maria finds a base on the teachings of Maestro Vito Maria Brunetti, who represents the Italian School of maestro Arturo Melocchi, the technique that can create a free powerful voice, expressing our life strenghten. It is the voice of the Mediterranean warmth of vitality and pleasure of the sound,  opening to the present moment, where the expression of the voice is the courage to reveal ourselves to the outside – as we are. 

WHAT IS MUSIC?

BE AWARE! Music is not a form of entertainment, but a sacred and precious art, that should educate to express and create harmony in our emotions. Music can help to transform and therefore it should be used to teach about emotions and to inspire goodness.

Music awakens vitality, imagination and human connections. The art of singing guides body and mind to rediscover harmony and health through body awareness, resonance and vibration, and helps to overcome even the greatest difficulties in life.

Those who follow the path of singing, learn to connect deeply with body and mind, they are educated to respect and to be free from physical tensions and mental blocks.

A free voice should be a symptom of a light and gentle soul, of a sensitive body and a soft mind.